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Miami Transformed

Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time

Autor: Manny Diaz

Język:

Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University of Pennsylvania Press

Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy

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Six-year-old Manuel Diaz and his mother first arrived at Miami's airport in 1961 with little more th...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Manny Diaz

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2014

strony

240

EAN

9780812222944

ISBN

0812222946

Enbook ID

04723635

Wydawca

University of Pennsylvania Press

Waga

413

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 18

Pełny opis

Six-year-old Manuel Diaz and his mother first arrived at Miami's airport in 1961 with little more than a dime for a phone call to their relatives in the Little Havana neighborhood. Forty years after his flight from Castro's Cuba, attorney Manny Diaz became mayor of the City of Miami. Toward the end of the twentieth century, the one-time citrus and tourism hub was more closely associated with vice than sunshine. When Diaz took office in 2001, the city was paralyzed by a notoriously corrupt police department, unresponsive government, a dying business district, and heated ethnic and racial divisions. During Diaz's two terms as mayor, Miami was transformed into a vibrant, progressive, and economically resurgent world-class metropolis. In Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time, award-winning former mayor Manny Diaz shares lessons learned from governing one of the most diverse and dynamic urban communities in the United States. This firsthand account begins with Diaz's memories as an immigrant child in a foreign land, his education, and his political development as part of a new generation of Cuban Americans. Diaz also discusses his role in the controversial Elian Gonzalez case. Later he details how he managed two successful mayoral campaigns, navigated the maze of municipal politics, oversaw the revitalization of downtown Miami, and rooted out police corruption to regain the trust of businesses and Miami citizens. Part memoir, part political primer, Miami Transformed offers a straightforward look at Diaz's brand of holistic, pragmatic urban leadership that combines public investment in education and infrastructure with private sector partnerships. The story of Manny Diaz's efforts to renew Miami will interest anyone seeking to foster safer, greener, and more prosperous cities.